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... In his infamous chapter on “The Black Man and Language” in Black Skin, White Masks , Fanon cites Léon-Gontran Damas’s incomparable poem “Hoquet” to illustrate the material and psychic effects of the imposition of the French language onto its colonies. Throughout this chapter, Fanon deconstructs...

...Helene Cazes Jacques Bellot . The French Method. La Méthode française [ Susan Baddeley éd. et trad.]. Paris : Éditions Classiques Garnier , 2010 . Pp. 440 . [Collection Textes de la Renaissance 148]. Jean-Pierre Camus . Les Euenemens singuliers [Max Vernet éd...

...Michael Meere Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Michael Meere VIOLENCE, REVENGE, AND THE STAKES OF WRITING DURING THE FRENCH CIVIL WARS: SIMON BELYARD'S LE GUYS/EN W hen Henri III had the Guise brothers killed, mutilated, and cremated and then disposed of their ashes...

...James Helgeson Phillip John Usher and Isabelle Fernbach (eds.). Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance , Gallica , 27 . London : Boydell and Brewer , 2012 . Pp. 260 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 2°4 BOOK REVIEWS "post-1945 non...

...Simone Ventura Catherine E. Léglu . Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State UP , 2010 . Pp. 216 . Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Book Reviews Catherine E. Leglu...

...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san THE POETICS AND PERILS OF FACTION: CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FICTION AND THE MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II I n an essay published in the summer 2011 special issue of Le Debat entitled "L'Histoire saisie par la...

...Thomas Wynn Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Thomas Wynn COLLABORATION AND AUTHORSHIP IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH THEATER T heatrical collaboration is often described in morbid terms in the eighteenth century. In Alexis Piron's Le Facheux Veuvage (1725) the poet Abok...

...Marisa Galvez [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 medieval literature inheritance mediality Old Occitan troubadours I started learning French as my first secondary language, having never learned...

... cultural and psychological aspects related to the colonial system. Given its intrinsic relationship with the history of colonialism and its aftermath, French studies, and the often-Eurocentric forms of literatures upon which it used to rely, has been increasingly at the center of debates about reforming...

...Terrence Cullen [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 senses sound book history medieval French After two years of delays due to COVID-19—one of whose telltale signs is the loss or distortion of one sense...

... stigmatized attributes in particular populations.” I would concur that this approach—honing in on the very construction and sedimentation of social norms—would allow us a more robust exploration of “diversity” than the retrofit. Paradoxically, French literature’s very canonicity may be one of its...

...Laurence Denié-Higney; Vera Klekovkina [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 community engagement French studies global competencies social justice sustainability What...

...Yazan Kamalulddin As for bilingual students, university-level French departments have the opportunity to turn the momentum of K–12 French immersion programs to their advantage. While French programs at universities are experiencing decline in enrollment, as previously mentioned, the bilingual...

...Arnaud Perret As we move beyond the twentieth century and the direct effects of colonialism and postcolonialism, we might ponder the relevance of consistently linking or comparing newer cultural productions to historically hegemonic systems. In essence, French and Francophone studies could...

... postcoloniality The field of French and Francophone studies in US academia has evolved a lot in the past four or five decades. Francophone studies, in particular, as a subfield, emerged in the 1990s and has known a great period of success, allowing both the expansion of French programs and the inclusion...

... it means. Exactly what can we do with DH in French? How can it help with research and teaching? What makes it a game changer for the learning experience? Those are genuine questions: DH provide tremendous opportunities for world language departments to grow and become more attractive to digital learners...

...Marc Bizer Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Marc Bizer 'QUI A PAlS N'A QUE FAIRE DE PATRIE' : JOACHIM DU BELLAY'S RESISTANCE TO A FRENCH IDENTITY The poet Joachim Du Bellay is commonly recognized as one of the most famous figures of sixteenth-century French literature...

..., and to make a promising departure from previous critical attitudes. The book points to interesting territory, and is an important addition to existing scholarship on the Oulipo. (ALISON JAMES, Columbia University) Peter Schulman. The Sunday of Fiction. The Modern French Eccentric. West Lafayette, Indiana...

...Alison Baird Lovell Book Reviews Virginia Krause. Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 230. In her first book, Virginia Krause of Brown University has analyzed a concept intrinsic to Renaissance culture in France...

...Madeleine Dobie French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race . Edited by Tyler Stovall and Georges Van Den Abbeele . Lexington Books , 2003 . Pp. 383 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS 477 French...